Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 2T.B. Wait, & Company, 1807 - Law |
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... Remainder , and Reversion CHAP . XII . Of Estates in Severalty , Joint - Tenancy , Coparcenary , and Com- mon ...... ........................ CHAP . XIII . Of the Title to Things Real , in general CHAP . XIV . 163 179 195 Of Title by ...
... Remainder , and Reversion CHAP . XII . Of Estates in Severalty , Joint - Tenancy , Coparcenary , and Com- mon ...... ........................ CHAP . XIII . Of the Title to Things Real , in general CHAP . XIV . 163 179 195 Of Title by ...
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... remainder in such a case has been said to be in abeyance , or in nubibus , or in gremio legis ; but Mr. Fearne , with great ability and learning , has exposed the futility of these expressions , when a parson dies , the freehold of his ...
... remainder in such a case has been said to be in abeyance , or in nubibus , or in gremio legis ; but Mr. Fearne , with great ability and learning , has exposed the futility of these expressions , when a parson dies , the freehold of his ...
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... remainder of inheritance is limited in contingency by way of " use , or by devise , the inheritance in the mean time , if not otherwise " disposed of , remains in the grantor and his heirs , or in the heirs of " the testator , until the ...
... remainder of inheritance is limited in contingency by way of " use , or by devise , the inheritance in the mean time , if not otherwise " disposed of , remains in the grantor and his heirs , or in the heirs of " the testator , until the ...
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... remainder or further limitation of it ; and when the grantee has issue , he has the full power of alienation , and of barring the possibility of its reverting to the grantor by the extinction of his issue . 2 Ves . 170 . 1 Bro . 325 ...
... remainder or further limitation of it ; and when the grantee has issue , he has the full power of alienation , and of barring the possibility of its reverting to the grantor by the extinction of his issue . 2 Ves . 170 . 1 Bro . 325 ...
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... remainder or rever- sion continues still in the crown , shall be of any force and effect . Which is allowing , indirectly and collaterally , their full force and effect with respect to ordinary estates - tail , where the royal ...
... remainder or rever- sion continues still in the crown , shall be of any force and effect . Which is allowing , indirectly and collaterally , their full force and effect with respect to ordinary estates - tail , where the royal ...
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advowson afterwards alienation ancestor ancient brother called cestuy chattels collateral common law continued convey conveyance copyhold corporation court courts of equity curtesy custom death debt deed degree descended determined devise doctrine dower eldest Eliz emblements entitled equity escheat estate-tail executors father fealty fee-simple female feodal feoffment feud forfeiture freehold gavelkind grant grantor hath heirs held hereditaments holden husband Ibid incorporeal hereditaments Inst interest issue John Stiles joint-tenants jointure king king's knight-service lands and tenements lease lessee lineal Litt livery of seisin lord male manor marriage nature occupancy original owner particular estate parties person possession principle profits propositus purchase purchasor quia emptores reason remainder rent rule seised seisin serjeanty socage socage tenure species statute tenant in tail tenure thing tion tithes unless vested villein villenage void warranty whereby wife words
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Page 1 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 162 - Coke (vo1. 1, 1040,) is, that 'when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase.
Page 514 - America to them in hand paid by the party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged...
Page 6 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 514 - Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
Page 515 - Company, their successors, and assigns from the day next before the day of the date of these presents for and during and unto the full end and term of one whole year...
Page 214 - The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living.
Page 8 - Necessity begat property : and in order to insure that property, recourse was had to civil society, which brought along with it a long train of inseparable concomitants ; states, government, laws, punishments, and the public exercise of religious duties. Thus connected together, it was found that a part only of society was sufficient to provide, by their manual labour, for the necessary subsistence of all ; and leisure was given to others to cultivate the human mind, to invent useful arts, and to...
Page 516 - West containing forty acres be the same more or less, Together with all and Singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining.
Page 518 - Griffith, his intended wife, lawfully to be begotten, severally, successively, and in remainder, one after another, as they, and every of them, shall be in seniority of age and priority of birth...